Channelling The Way

It is the six-year anniversary of the most difficult, traumatic, and painful days of my life. I lost my humanity and became a monster that did monstrous things. I completely lost myself in what I can only describe as an episode of mental annihilation. Only in hindsight, with a long and winding road behind me, does it seem that I had to lose myself to find my Self.    Maybe you have too?  Or maybe someone was lost from you?    I lost so much more than myself in those days. But

“More evil gets done in the name of righteousness than in any other way.” – Glen Cook Today it feels like I am constantly bombarded by a hundred different forms of propaganda and that I reside in the midst of a dozen always-competing psychological operations. I find it glaringly overt now. There is no subtlety in it anymore, or perhaps there never was. I do not believe there are any real “sides” in all of this, but that it is all just an attempt to get me to take a side and j

“People do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility. They prefer to live under some else’s idea of truth, to obey rather than think, to blame rather than act. The real battle is not between good and evil but between cowardice and courage – between those who dare to think for themselves and those who choose to the comfort of chains.”  – Fyodor Dostoevsky   I have found that freedom is man’s greatest exis